| Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine | |
|---|---|
| Starring |
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| Narrated by | Paul Christie (season 1 – season 4) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 69 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Peter Campion, Sam Maynard, John Slaughter |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | Raw TV |
| Original release | |
| Network | Discovery+ |
| Release | March 8, 2019 – September 16, 2022 |
| Related | |
| Gold Rush , Gold Rush: White Water , Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan , Gold Rush: Winter's Fortune, Hoffman Family Gold, Bering Sea Gold , Ice Cold Gold, Jungle Gold , America’s Backyard Gold, Yukon Gold | |
This spin-off series followed Dave Turin, formerly of the Hoffman crew, as he looked to start new mining operations at disused gold mines in the Western United States. [1] Dave Turin set up Golden Streets Mining LLC as the mining company for this venture. [2] [3] The series debuted in March 2019 (the mining took place in 2018), centering on a placer mine along Lynx Creek near Prescott Valley, Arizona (season gold total 80oz, $96,000). [4] In 2020 (the mining took place in 2019), the show's second season ran from February to April, with eight episodes centering on a placer mine along Silver Creek in Birdseye, near Marysville, Montana (season gold total 225.1oz, $340,000). [5] In 2021 (the mining took place in 2020), the show's third season ran 16 episodes from March to July, centering on a placer mine along Box Creek in Lake County, Colorado for 12 weeks (gold total 426.8oz, $810,000) before moving back to Lynx Creek in Arizona for the last four weeks (gold total 174oz; whole season gold total 600.95oz, over $1,000,000). In 2022 (the mining took place in 2021), the show's fourth season ran 16 episodes from May to September, centering on a placer mine along Glacier Creek in the Chugach Census Area, near Valdez, Alaska, for 13 out of 20 weeks (season gold total 463oz, over $800,000).
In 2022, Dave Turin began the process of selling the Valdez Glacier Creek claim to Nathan Clark and Jason Sanchez, 2 members of his crew from the beginning of this spin-off series, as Dave retires from mining. This process aired in 2023 (the mining took place in 2022; season gold total 29.75oz), as part of the regular Gold Rush TV series; there being no Dave Turin's Lost Mine season for the wind-up. [6]
On 18 August 2020, Jesse Goins suffered a fatal heart attack during filming of the third season of the show. [7]
During the filming of the fourth season, Casey learned his wife and her brother had gone missing while hiking in the Grand Canyon. They were later both found safe. [8]
| Seasons | Name | Position | |||||||||||
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| 1–4 | Dave Turin | Quarry and Mining Expert | |||||||||||
| 1–4 | Jason Sanchez | Excavator Operator | |||||||||||
| 1-4 | Casey Morgan | Rock Truck Driver | |||||||||||
| 1-4 | Chris Taylor | Loader Operator | |||||||||||
| 1-4 | Nathan Clark | Mechanic | |||||||||||
| 1-3 | Jesse Goins | Gold Room Operator | |||||||||||
| 1-4 | Shelly Turin | Gold Room Operator | |||||||||||
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||
| 1 | 4 | April 5, 2019 | April 26, 2019 | |
| 2 | 8 | February 21, 2020 | April 10, 2020 | |
| 3 | 16 | March 19, 2021 | July 2, 2021 | |
| 4 | 16 | May 20, 2022 | September 9, 2022 | |
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) [a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Special | "Return to the Yukon" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 2 | Special | "Nevada Nuggets" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 3 | Special | "The Hunt for Flour Gold" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 4 | Special | "Montana Motherlode" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 5 | Special | "Chasing Big Canyon’s Gold" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 6 | Special | "Desert Dredge Mystery" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 7 | Special | "Lincoln’s Arizona Gold" | March 8, 2019 (Discovery+) | N/A |
| 8 | 1 | "Dozer Dave Returns" | April 5, 2019 (Discovery) | 1.23 [9] |
| 9 | 2 | "Rookie Mistakes" | April 12, 2019 (Discovery) | 1.33 [10] |
| 10 | 3 | "Paydirt Mystery" | April 19, 2019 (Discovery) | 1.19 [11] |
| 11 | 4 | "Last Chance Cut" | April 26, 2019 (Discovery) | 1.21 [12] |
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Special | "Golden Playbook" | January 17, 2020 | 1.38 [13] |
| 13 | Special | "Lost War Gold" | January 24, 2020 | N/A |
| 14 | Special | "Ghost Town Gold" | January 24, 2020 | 1.67 [14] |
| 15 | 1 | "Rocky Mountain Gold" | February 21, 2020 | 2.08 [15] |
| 16 | Special | "Birdseye Bounty" | February 21, 2020 | N/A |
| 17 | Special | "Gold & Gems" | February 21, 2020 | N/A |
| 18 | 2 | "Big Bowl Bet" | February 28, 2020 | 1.59 [16] |
| 19 | Special | "Deal or No Deal" | February 28, 2020 | N/A |
| 20 | 3 | "Vanishing Gold" | March 6, 2020 | 1.92 [17] |
| 21 | 4 | "Gold Will Surrender" | March 13, 2020 | 1.37 [18] |
| 22 | Special | "Miller Mountain Discovery" | March 13, 2020 | N/A |
| 23 | 5 | "Back on Gold" | March 20, 2020 | 1.83 [19] |
| 24 | 6 | "Boundary Blowout" | March 27, 2020 | 1.74 [20] |
| 25 | Special | "Mountain of Gold" | March 27, 2020 | N/A |
| 26 | 7 | "Blue Room Bonanza" | April 3, 2020 | 1.89 [21] |
| 27 | Special | "Freezing Gold" | April 3, 2020 | N/A |
| 28 | 8 | "All In" | April 10, 2020 | 1.68 [22] |
| 29 | Special | "A Birdseye Brotherhood" | April 17, 2020 | 1.27 [23] |
| 30 | Special | "The United States of Gold" | April 24, 2020 | 1.38 [24] |
| 31 | Special | "Lost Miner Lockdown" | May 29, 2020 | 0.69 [25] |
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | Special | "The Million Dollar Claim" | March 12, 2021 | 1.00 [26] |
| 33 | 1 | "Mountain of Gold" | March 19, 2021 | 1.47 [27] |
| 34 | 2 | "Say a Prayer" | March 26, 2021 | 1.19 [28] |
| 35 | 3 | "The Fifty Ounce Test" | April 2, 2021 | N/A |
| 36 | 4 | "Gold Vault Gamble" | April 9, 2021 | 1.23 [29] |
| 37 | Special | "The Midas Touch" | April 9, 2021 | 1.01 [29] |
| 38 | 5 | "No Country for Gold Men" | April 16, 2021 | 1.43 [30] |
| 39 | Special | "The Golden Rules" | April 16, 2021 | 0.87 [30] |
| 40 | 6 | "Let There Be Gold" | April 23, 2021 | 1.53 [31] |
| 41 | 7 | "Good Man Down" | April 30, 2021 | 1.21 [32] |
| 42 | 8 | "Forged in Fire" | May 7, 2021 | 1.09 [33] |
| 43 | 9 | "Enter the Promised Land" | May 14, 2021 | 1.24 [34] |
| 44 | 10 | "Winter's Warning" | May 21, 2021 | 1.26 [35] |
| 45 | 11 | "X Marks the Spot" | May 28, 2021 | 1.25 [36] |
| 46 | 12 | "Million Dollar Gamble" | June 4, 2021 | 1.23 [37] |
| 47 | 13 | "Arizona Crush" | June 11, 2021 | 1.26 [38] |
| 48 | 14 | "The Curse of Lost Mine Gold" | June 18, 2021 | 1.38 [39] |
| 49 | 15 | "Shock and Ore" | June 25, 2021 | 1.13 [40] |
| 50 | 16 | "End Game" | July 2, 2021 | 1.12 [41] |
| 51 | Special | "How to Mine a Million" | July 9, 2021 | 0.71 [42] |
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | Special | "Bleed Gold" | May 13, 2022 | 0.82 [43] |
| 53 | 1 | "Turin's Gamble" | May 20, 2022 | 1.01 [44] |
| 54 | 2 | "Ends of the Earth" | May 27, 2022 | 0.96 [45] |
| 55 | 3 | "Valley of Glacier Gold" | June 3, 2022 | 0.98 [46] |
| 56 | 4 | "Alaskan Hope" | June 10, 2022 | 0.96 [47] |
| 57 | 5 | "Double Trouble" | June 17, 2022 | N/A |
| 58 | 6 | "Trial by Water" | June 24, 2022 | 0.95 [48] |
| 59 | 7 | "H2 … Oh No" | July 1, 2022 | 0.98 [49] |
| 60 | 8 | "The Eagle Has Landed" | July 8, 2022 | 1.02 [50] |
| 61 | 9 | "Fight or Flight" | July 15, 2022 | 0.99 [51] |
| 62 | 10 | "Clash of the Cuts" | July 22, 2022 | 0.92 [52] |
| 63 | 11 | "Crisis at the Creek" | August 5, 2022 | 0.86 [53] |
| 64 | 12 | "Shadow of Denali" | August 12, 2022 | 0.84 [54] |
| 65 | 13 | "On the Gold Again" | August 19, 2022 | 0.87 [55] |
| 66 | 14 | "Cowboys & Dreamers" | August 26, 2022 | 0.81 [56] |
| 67 | 15 | "Risky Business" | September 2, 2022 | 0.81 [57] |
| 68 | 16 | "Gold Favors the Bold" | September 9, 2022 | 0.68 [58] |
| 69 | Special | "The Longest Prospect" | September 16, 2022 | 0.60 [59] |